And there's always a troll lurking...
I think this whole forum shutdown is absolutely WRONG, but I still have several thousand dollars in av123 (and Perpetual Technology) equipment as do thousands of other people. Very good stuff bought at great prices and for me (and for the majority of av123 customers), delivered on time when promised.
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Troll? I guess that's what you call it when someone brings up something you would rather not hear, Mr. Several Thousand Dollars.....
Here's an excerpt from a Stereo Times article:
Digital Processors
Perpetual Technologies P-1A D/D & P-3A D/A processors
By Robert Deutsch • January, 2001
At the Consumer Electronics show in Las Vegas in January 1999, Mark Schifter, erstwhile president of Audio Alchemy, was handing out a press release announcing what seemed like a groundbreaking product from his new company, Perpetual Technologies. The product was the P-1A, a digital-to-digital processor that would do resolution enhancement, loudspeaker correction (amplitude and phase), and room correction—all for less than $1k. It sounded too good to be true.
perpp1a.jpgFour months later, at HI-FI '99, PT actually had a working prototype of the P-1A, and gave an impressive demonstration of its speaker-correction function with the Vandersteen 2Ce. I was told that I'd be getting a review sample as soon as production began, just a few weeks later.
Weeks passed, then months, but still no P-1A. I was starting to think that it might be an example of "vaporware," existing only as a concept and a prototype. However, Mark Schifter continually reassured me that the P-1A was very much a real product, and that the delays in production were caused by revisions in the design to incorporate the latest generation of DSP chips, and to build in more power to do the job even better. PT was also about to introduce a companion piece, the P-3A digital processor, which would do the basic D/A conversion. When would these products be ready? Soon, very soon—maybe just a couple of weeks.
Finally, more than 18 months after the initial product announcement, the P-1A and P-3A review samples appeared on my doorstep. The loudspeaker/room-correction software is still not ready for release (the prototype software was 16-bit; it's being rewritten to take advantage of the P-1A's 24-bit capability), but the resolution enhancement is said to be far better than the original prototype's..."
Sound familiar???
So how's that room and speaker correction working out for you and your P-1A? Delivered on time and when promised was it??? Guess I must have missed it-maybe I got rid of mine too early when I sold it back in 2005 after waiting 5 years.....
